Visits work site to evaluate job and equipment problems.
Plans routine and shut down maintenance work orders.
Determines specific location and scope of work.
Determines material requirements and parts locations.
Identifies special tools, ladders, scaffolding and rigging.
Provides work procedures where they exist.
Identifies safety precautions, permits and safety requirements.
Determines craft requirements and time estimates.
Identifies craft coordination issues and supporting work orders as required.
Provides sketches or drawings as needed.
Develops and maintains a file of best practices (safe work procedures).
Request materials as needed for work orders.
Writes purchase requisitions and obtains the required approvals.
Tracks requisitions and follows-up as needed to ensure timely delivery of spare parts and materials.
Acts, when necessary, to ensure stores parts and materials are picked up on a timely basis and used as planned.
Informs maintenance supervisors and maintenance coordinator on continuous basis when materials have arrived, and work order is ready to schedule at the weekly scheduling meeting.
Helps to control costs by ensuring that unused materials are promptly returned stores.
Manages the work order backlog.
Verifies work order description, equipment number, and priority.
Adds comments to history and completes work orders in MPAC.
Continuously reviews backlog to determine if work requests are still appropriate.
Maintains backlog of planned maintenance work orders for short operational downtimes.
Participates in the scheduling of work orders.
Participates with the maintenance coordinator and the maintenance supervisor in consulting with them regarding equipment or facilities to be maintained.
Shares in the setting of priorities for planning and scheduling of all non-emergency work.
Recommends to operational long-range maintenance needs and prepares weekly job plans of all jobs scheduled for the following week.
Ensures prefabrication of shutdown jobs are completed within a timely basis.
Ensures the availability of adequate critical spare parts and acts as a resource for locating spare parts.
Learns “parts finding” techniques in the plant’s CMMS.
Follows-up and tracks rebuilds and repairs of spare equipment to completion.
Identifies and resolves the status of unused parts.
Builds new and updates existing parts lists.
Participates in the mill safety program by assisting and supporting safety activities including housekeeping, audits, inspections, and meetings.
By examining work order histories and recognizing repeating failures, the planner is responsible for identifying and communicating suspected repeat equipment problems to maintenance superintendents.
Measuring Results
Percentage of planned and scheduled work completed.
Routine maintenance work order’s actual hours versus estimated effort hours
Backlog (by area, craft, priority, and work order type).
Shutdown scheduled hours versus actual hours.
Percentage of break in work.
Accomodations will be made available for eligible job seekers